Action Group (Detail View)

The Action Group Overview dialog and the corresponding detail views (after pressing Edit...) provide the means to control the actions of the camera if it detects one or more events.

Note

Even if the Action Profile parameter has been activated, the camera will only execute the selected actions if the Arming parameter in the General Event Settings dialog has been activated.

General Settings

Once the event control has been enabled, the camera can use the events activated in this dialog. If Event Selection has been set to All (default), the camera will process all activated events in this list. To select only specific events from the list, use [Ctrl]-Click
to highlight the desired events.

If you would like to use deactivated events (gray and in parentheses), you can select them, but you need to activate and configure
them in the Event Settings dialog.

Option

Description

Arming

This parameter controls the activation status of the action group.

Enabled: The action group is always armed.

Off: The action group has been disabled, the settings are hidden from view, but remain stored.

CS1, ..., CS5, CSL: The action group is only armed if the corresponding custom signal is true.

Time Table Profile

In order to activate the action group defined in this dialog in a time-controlled manner, you need to select a Time Table Profile. Please note that the Arming switch of the action group must not be set to Off.

Event selection

You can restrict the number of events upon which the camera should start a new action by highlighting only the desired events
in the list. If this is the case, the actions described hereafter are performed for the highlighted events only.

Note

This selection does not affect image recording in the camera's internal image storage or on a file server.

Action Dead Time

Once the action group has been started, it will not be started again during the time set in this parameter.

Action Chaining

This parameter allows specifying how several actions should be executed (simultaneously or consecutively). In addition, the
camera can react in different ways to the success or failure of an individual action.

Simultaneously: All actions are started simultaneously and are executed until a success or failure is detected or until a timeout error
occurs.

Simultaneously until first success: All actions are started simultaneously and are executed until a success or failure is detected. As soon as one action has
finished successfully, the remaining actions will be skipped.

Note

In the case of a phone call, a success means that the recipient has accepted the call and, if required, has entered proper
identification.

Consecutively: The actions will be started one after another in the specified order (top to bottom). If one action ends with a success
or a failure, the camera will execute the next one in the chain.

Consecutively until first success: The actions will be started one after another in the specified order (top to bottom). If one action ends with a failure,
the camera will execute the next one in the chain. Upon a success, the chain ends.

Note

In the case of a phone call, a success means that the recipient has accepted the call and, if required, has entered proper
identification.

Consecutively until first failure: The actions will be started one after another in the specified order (top to bottom). If one action ends with a success,
the camera will execute the next one in the chain. As soon as one action has failed, the remaining actions will be skipped.

Note

Some actions can not run simultaneously (e.g. playback of sounds). In these cases, the exact order of execution is undefined.
If you have added many simultaneous action of such a type, the remaining actions will be skipped after the timeout limit has
been reached.

Actions

If one or more events that have been selected in the Event Selection and this action group has been armed and is not currently waiting out its dead time, the camera will execute the specified
actions.

Action

Description

Phone Call

Calls a VoIP address or phone.

Open the Phone Profiles dialog to define the VoIP addresses or phone numbers.

Creating Actions

Click on the Add new action button at the bottom of the dialog to add actions to this action group.

Deleting Actions

Activate the Delete option of the action(s) you would like to delete and click on Set at the bottom of the dialog.

Caution

When clicking on the Set button, the camera will immediately delete all actions with an activated Delete checkbox from the camera's active configuration. In order to store the configuration permanently, click on the Close button at the bottom of the dialog (see Storing the Configuration).

Click on the Restore button at the bottom of the dialog load the options of this action group that are stored in the camera's permanent memory.

Storing the Configuration

Click on the Set button to activate your settings and to save them until the next reboot of the camera.

Click on the Factory button to load the factory defaults for this dialog (this button may not be present in all dialogs).

Click on the Restore button to undo your most recent changes that have not been stored in the camera permanently.

Click on the Close button to close the dialog. While closing the dialog, the system checks the entire configuration for changes. If changes are detected, you will be asked if you would like to store the entire configuration permanently.